The OFFICIAL "How to Check Backlinks" Thread

I have only been on DP about a month as of writing this, and daily i see 4-5 new 'How do I check my backlinks?" threads....

In order to try to cut down on this,
I am creating this post based on the research efforts,
that I've done on my blog: Link Building Bible.

So, If you want to check how many backlinks your sites have, then check out these tools (or feel free to add one not in this list as a reply):

SEO Pro’s Link Checker – My Recommendation!
http://seopro.com.au/free-seo-tools/link-checker/

SubmitEdge’s PageRank Checker Tool + Alexa Tool + Link Checker Tool
http://www.submitedge.com/pr.html

RankAlert’s Backlink Watch Tool
http://rankalert.net/backlink-watch.php

iWebTool’s Backlink Checker
http://www.iwebtool.com/backlink_checker

Smart PageRank’s BackLink PageRank Check
http://www.smartpagerank.com/pagerank-backlinks.php

Backlink Watch’s Backlinks Checker Tool
http://www.backlinkwatch.com/index.php

Link Diagnosis
http://www.linkdiagnosis.com

Domain Pop
http://www.domain-pop.com/

dnScoop’s Domain and Site Value Tool
http://www.dnscoop.com/

W3tool’s Backlink Checker
http://www.w3tool.com/backlink/

LinkVendor’s Domain Popularity Analysis
http://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools/domain-popularity.html

1stSearchEngineRanking’s Link Popularity Tool
http://www.1stsearchenginerankings.com/link-popularity-tool/

Piloun’s WebInfo
http://www.piloun.com/info

WeBuildPages Free Backlink Checker
http://www.thelinkpop.com/index.php

PageRankr
http://www.pagerankr.com/

Webmaster Toolkit’s Link Popularity Checker
http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/link-popularity-checker.shtml

Professional Link Building’s Free Website Valuation
http://www.professionallinkbuilding.com/websitevaluation.aspx

Hope these help, and please add reputation if you found this list useful. Thanks, and enjoy!

 

This is great, I used your first link. But how important are backlinks? I have 442 backlinks, but why is my technorati rank and google rank so incredible low still?

hedgeagainstspeculation.com is my webiste...

 

Backlink help your website with reliability and importance within Search Engines.

In a nutshell the number of backlinks have become so important to the scope of Search Engine Optimization, that they have become some of the main building blocks to good SEO.

The number of backlinks is an indication of the "popularity" or importance of that website. Search engines, especially Google, will give more credit to websites that have a good number of QUALITY backlinks, and consider those websites more relevant on SERPS

If you have a bunch of "bad" links it wont be affective at either result or PR.

Cheers
Lucio

 

Good post, gave you +1 rep. Nice blow by the way, lots of information.

 

nice collection! great group of tools

 

Great post of useful links, thanks!

 

My guess would be the small amount of backlinks...you need at least 5-10k to be atop the ranks in google. You also need some more pr4-5-6-7 links cuz most of yours are pr0.

 

Very useful informaton, thanks for sharing. I used the first one which found most of my links.

 

Thanks for sharing.........really appreciated

 

thnx 4 sharing.
another easy way is
just typethe following
link:www.yoursitename.com
in google.com and press enter

 

Thanks for all these useful tools!

 

That method only shows a very small portion of your actual links that Google sees. Using Google's webmaster tools is the better way than using link:www.yoursiteURL.com

 

I have a doubt I tried to find backlinks with many available siite tools

But the results varies from each other why like that ?

 

Thanks I have tried and found it useful!

 

Each site is a bit different in the algorithms they use. Like I mentioned to someone else, even google's link:yourURLhere.com isn't even accurate, actually, it's probably the least.

The best thing to do is to stick to 2 or 3 (I use the ones near the top mostly, just provided the others so people can choose their favorites)

The very top one is pretty accurate. Instead of comparing the results BETWEEN the different sites, just keep a weekly tab on the results from one or two and compare the stats against the previous week.

 

Google doesnt like to count certain websites because they either charged for a link or violated some Google TOS.

 

lol i have 2

 

thanks, using the first one right now, hoping for good results =)

 

Thank you for the list. However, I would rather remove the smartpagerank link from your list if you can still edit it. Otherwise some children might use it and rejoice on Yahoo.com's PR being only 0
To be honest smartpagerank doesn't do a ****!

If I may suggest:
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/pagerank-lookup/ is a nice tool for bulk checking PageRank (chunks of 100 addresses)
and call me old-fashioned, but I kinda love Yahoo Linkdomain
It allows you to download backlinks for a site in a neat comma-separated file so that you can play with it using Excel.

Cheers!

 

That's nice group of back link checker tools.